Five9 announced its decision to collaborate with Google Cloud for common customer experience solutions. This follows a series of announcements from the contact center giant earlier this week focused on improving customer experience with AI services. Their latest partnership will see both providers collaborate towards an effective customer solution, enabling enterprise customers to improve their…
Speaking in Davos, Huang argued that investments in AI strengthen employment by reorienting work from tasks to purpose, particularly in healthcare, manufacturing and digital services. AI evolves into a fundamental economic system rather than a standalone technology, according to NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, who described AI as a five-layer infrastructure spanning energy, hardware, data centers,…
Shortly after Google announced its new universal commerce protocol for AI-powered sales agents, a consumer economy watchdog sounded the alarm. In a post now viral on X Viewed nearly 400,000 times, Lindsay Owens wrote on Sunday: “Big/bad news for consumers. Google today announced how it plans to integrate shopping into its AI offerings, including search…
Meta’s 5-gigawatt “Hyperion” data center under construction in Richland Parish, Louisiana, January 9, 2026. Meta The popular narrative that artificial intelligence is the engine that keeps the U.S. economy alive appears exaggerated, according to recent analyses. The AI boom has reshaped stock market valuations, driven large investments and record bond issuances to finance data centers,…
A study by UC Riverside researchers offers a practical solution to one of artificial intelligence’s toughest challenges by enabling AI systems to reason more like humans, without requiring new training data beyond testing questions. In a preprint paper entitled “Test-Time Matching: Unlocking Compositional Reasoning in Multimodal Models”, assistant professor Yinglun Zhu and students introduce a…
The software giant is being outdone in innovation by AI start-ups. Actions of Microsoft (MSFT 2.86%) collapsed last week following the tech giant’s latest earnings report. Investors were likely worried about slowing cloud growth, massive increases in AI infrastructure capital spending, and the revelation that nearly half of its order book was tied to OpenAI….
Starlink clients are the latest thing for the AI mill. The company has updated its Privacy Policy on January 15 to enable the collection of user data for AI training. Customers are registered by default, but it is relatively simple to unsubscribe. Starlink says it may use your personal information “to train our machine learning…
In the days leading up to its fourth-quarter 2025 financial results, GoDaddy was expected to post earnings of US$1.58 per diluted share, while investors also weighed its decision to exit the .CO domain registry amid growing AI-driven competition. Along with these financial expectations, GoDaddy’s internal focus on longtime talent and evolving AI-driven development practices shows…
MADISON, Wis. (Gray) – The Wisconsin Assembly passed a bill Tuesday to regulate the state’s growing artificial intelligence data center industry. The bill moved quickly through the Statehouse, receiving a vote less than two weeks after being introduced. The bill passed 53-44, largely along partisan lines, with Democrats opposing it. “This bill balances the strategic…
“Today, most investors still view AI and crypto as separate worlds. The real opportunity lies in the infrastructure layer that connects them: protocols that allow agents to discover counterparties, negotiate, validate and settle transactions programmatically,” said Ran Levitzky, general partner at Magenta Venture Partners. When asked which sector or trend is currently being ignored and…